Encounter (period 1)
Although he was NOT the first European to encounter the Americas, his encounter left world-changing consequences.
Christopher Columbus
One fundamental cause of the Revolution were the enormous debts from this British Conflict of the 1750s and early 1760s.
Seven Years War/French and Indian War/Great War for Empire
South Carolina made it clear in is declaration of secession that this issue was the root of the Civil War.
Slavery
Long a goal of reformers, Carrie Chapman Catt and Alice Paul finally made it a reality for all in 1920.
Women's Suffrage
This name has been given to President Reagan’s plan to cut taxes, spending, and government regulation of businesses.
Reaganomics
The most advanced Native American civilizations in the 1400s were found in this region.
Mexico/Peru
The American Revolution’s chief effect on slavery was this.
Abolition of slavery in the North
Radical Republicans of the 1860s believed this constitutional change, giving rights of citizenship to freed slaves, would be the key to reforming the South.
14th Amendment
Accepting the progressive ideas about why the US entered World War I, Senator Gerald Nye authored these three laws, hoping to keep the US out of World War II.
Neutrality Acts
The victory of conservative republicans like Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush owes much to the rising power and visibility of these politically active Christians.
Evangelicals
The need for labor for Spanish plantations transformed this institution, native to Africa, into something global.
Slavery
The fundamental disagreement between Colonists and Parliament in the 1760s was the nature of representation. Parliament argued that Americans were represented in Parliament in this way.
Virtual Representation
Divisions over the expansion of slavery into territory gained during this war helped create the Civil War.
Mexican-American War
Wilson’s method for the US playing a powerful role in leading the post-World War I world, the US Senate rejected it.
League of Nations
Responding to this major crisis dominated the last year of George W. Bush’s Presidency, and the first years of Barack Obama’s.
The Great Recession
The most damaging part of the Columbian Exchange for the Americas was the introduction of this from Europe.
Disease
Alexander Hamilton dreamed of an American Republic that would grow strong, through government support of this economic activity.
Manufacturing and trade
This Northern political party grew out of Democratic and Whig hostility to the Kansas-Nebraska act, as well as the ideas of the Free Soil Party.
Republican Party
This technological innovation made mass culture, politics, entertainment, and advertising possible in the 1920s and 1930s.
Radio
President Clinton failed in his attempt to transform this aspect of American economic life, but President Obama succeeded in his efforts.
Healthcare
This event of the 1500s created profound division and hostility in Europe, particularly between Spain and England.
The Protestant Reformation
This violent tax protest in Western Massachusetts in the 1780s convinced many that a stronger national government was needed.
Shays' Rebellion
The goal of Native American policy in the late 19th century was to force Native Americans to assimilate into White Culture. This was one of the key parts of that policy.
Dawes Severalty Act/Boarding Schools
In 1898, the US showed its arrival as a world power by taking this group of Pacific islands from Spain, becoming an imperialist nation.
The Philippines
One of the main economic transformations of the last 40 years has been the efforts to reduce the labor costs of manufacturing by doing this.
Automation/Movement overseas